To school in SA

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 8, Issue 370, 22 January 1991, Page 4

To school in SA

Two Ruapehu College boys will be absent for the whole of the first term this year - but present at schools in South Australia. Jason Schrier and Mathew Fetzer are joining the Rotary Exchange programme. They left Ohakune yesterday. Jason will stay with a family in an Adelaide suburb and attend Pedare Christian College and Mathew will attend Clare High School, a public school 140km north of Adelaide, in the wine producing and farming area of South Australia. The two responded to a call through the college for pupils to take part in the exchange, about six months ago. They each had to write essays about themselves and the area and were selected by a panel of Rotarians. Jason will stay with a

family which has both parents as teachers, a boy his age and a girl a little older. Mathew's Australian family has a father who is an accountant and a mother who is a physiotherapist, with five children, two having left home. As well as studying they will be spending lots of time travelling around taking in the differences between this part of the world and the South Australia scene. Towards the end of their stay a trip to Ayre's Rock is planned as well as a trip to a coastal town where a brother to Ruapehu teacher Judy Knight is harbour master. They each have two counsellors to help them through the exchange one each here and one each in Australia, who will help out their Aus-

tralian counterparts when they come to stay through the second term. The Waimarino counsellors are Rotarians Richard Stark and Keith Leary. Chairman bids for nationa! post A bid for election to the Electricity Supply Association of New Zealand council has been made by KCEPB chairman Ken Street. Five vacancies have occurred on the council as a result of the recent director-designate appointments, with the election to be held early in 1991. Thcre has never been a KCEPB member on the council, but Mr Street is believed to have a good chance, being one of the few board chairmen reappointed as a chairman following the reshuffle.